Bobby Jindal opposes abortion rights 100%, no exceptions. None, zip, zero, nada, not for life or health or rape or incest.

He also opposes any funding for embryonic stem-cell research. And he supports the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools- this, from a so-called “academic.”

(Hmmm, who knew all one needed to be an academic was a master’s degree in Poli-sci? I’d have thought one needed a PhD at least, and/or worked in higher education. Nope, he went to work for the state right out of college for a few years before running for office. “Academic” must be a really easy label to earn.)

Let’s see, what else? He supported shifting the state’s tax burden from progressive income taxes to regressive sales taxes.

He sponsored a bill to end the moratorium on near-shore oil and gas drilling- which may be somewhat popular in Louisiana, but it’s the kiss of death in Florida regardless of party, or at least it was when I lived there.

Rush Limbaugh said of him: “He is the next Ronald Reagan, if he doesn’t change. Bobby Jindal, the new governor of Louisiana is the next Ronald Reagan. …He’s the guy that beat the liberal Democrat machine throughout Louisiana. He did it on 100% conservatism.” (emphasis mine)

I’m guessing that he will not be defecting to the Democratic Party anytime soon, not without a MAJOR change of heart and mind.

Since when in this race does McCain care about that? He’s running as Bush III.

Not to mention that it would look like the most insulting pander of all time to the African-American community.

Maybe. But Republicans don’t win by being subtle, and if the cost-benefit analysis worked out… But you’re probably right about them feeling like their racist base is too valuable to endanger that way.

How well is Rice generally regarded by the African-American community, anyway? There’s not too many African Americans round my way (Tokyo), and it just so happens I know one (who says she’s liberal) who actually likes her. Which may be apropos of nothing.

Nobody forgets whose bodies lay in the streets of New Orleans except the RNC and the MSM, apparently.

several hispanic republicans will retain political office, particularly in florida.

this politico piece is bogus.

sorry for this fact interlude….resume republican bashing

several hispanic republicans will retain political office, particularly in florida.

this politico piece is bogus.

sorry for this fact interlude….resume republican bashing

this politico piece is bogus.

sorry, for this fact interlude….resume the republican bashing

Disagree, even Zell Miller is a flaming liberal compared to him…party switches overwhelmingly tend to occur with people who are very off-step with their party.

Jindal doesn’t have deep power base in the south. He is young academic from well to do immigrant family. (make that very young academic)

(ie. his money and vote can easily be switched. And he is too young to be bought and paid for, entrenched in power structure.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal

Jindal (pronounced /ˈdʒɪndəl/) was born in Baton Rouge to recently arrived Punjabi Indian immigrants Amar and Raj Jindal, who were attending graduate school. His family is of Punjabi ancestry; his father left India and his ancestral family village of Khanpura in the 1970s.[5] Raj Jindal is a retiring information technology director for the Louisiana Department of Labor.[6] According to family lore, Jindal adopted the name “Bobby” after watching The Brady Bunch television program at age four. He has been known by that name ever since—as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer—though legally his name remains Piyush Jindal.[7]

Jindal was a Hindu but converted to Catholicism in high school.[8] He has also offered testimony before Baptist and Pentecostal congregations since the beginning of the 2007 campaign season.[9] He attended high school at Baton Rouge Magnet High School and graduated at sixteen. In 1991, he graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with honors in biology and public policy. Afterwards, he received a master’s degree in political science from New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. While at Oxford, he wrote an article for the New Oxford Review in which he described witnessing a friend being possessed by a demon.[10] After Oxford, he joined McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, where he advised Fortune 500 companies.

…but she’s a Three-fer - Black, Female, AND Republican!

How could that not be a win/win situation?…

“And it would peeve a nice chunk of their supporters in the deep south besides.”

Oh sorry! You’re so right. Completely forgot about that.

Racism is such a hardy and “natural” part of the current Republican ethos, it’s easy to just take it for granted…

Not to mention that it would look like the most insulting pander of all time to the African-American community. Like they’re supposed to set aside the decades of race-baiting because of Condi? And it would peeve a nice chunk of their supporters in the deep south besides. Nope, it’ll be another crusty white man for VP.